I can’t believe they left out the Halifax explosion of 1917. It was the largest man made explosion ever, prior to the 1st atomic bomb. It killed close to 2000 people, injured about 9000, hundreds were permanently blinded by flying glass. It flattened a large part of Halifax all caused by the collision of two ships in the harbour. One carrying tons of explosives.
Surprised the Halifax explosion wasn't on this considering it was the largest non atomic explosion in history that went off right off the pier of a city that had no idea of the danger.
The 2020 film "Minamata," starring Johnny Depp as a real-life American photographer who traveled to Minamata, Japan to document the mercy poisoning of the population there, is must-watch viewing. Also, the London fog disaster is recounted is a gripping episode of "The Crown" on Netflix. Churchill really screwed up with his decision to step up the mining and use of coal AND by downplaying the poisonous fog for days before finally taking action. Sad.
Chernobyl and the Texas City explosion were incredibly significant and should've made this list...even if they needed to expand to a "Top 10"; but THOSE should definitely make it into the top 5 I'd think.
@@everythingamazing2379 Lol...yeah...and I think the FSB said only three...and neither would lie, would they? :) But seriously, these disasters shouldn't necessarily be ranked by death toll...but by overall damage, scope and longevity of impact of devastation I'd think.
@@TLL1969 Are you forgetting that Chernobyl's STILL rather relevant even today when it comes to man-made disasters because of the Elephant's Foot in the basement? The very blob that's still emitting enough radiation to kill someone if they so much as spend less than two minutes at most near the damn thing and is emitting enough heat to still melt the floor below it even at a reduced rate, Chernobyl if it's not properly contained could very well kill our entire planet if that foot gets to the Earth's core.
@@cursedhawkins1305 ?? Of course not...how did you read into my comment anything even close to me diminishing the Chernobyl catastrophe? I'm well aware of it's impact then, now...and well into the future.
Chernobyl / Leaded Gasoline / the Halifax / Mao's Great Famine / the Dust Bowl / Fukushima / Castle Bravo... I wish they'd watch channels that put together thoughtful lists instead of constant garbage conveyor belt bullshit channels.
I'm surprised they didn't mention the great Halifax, Nova Scotia explosion of 1917. From Wikipedia : On the morning of 6 December 1917, the French cargo ship SS Mont-Blanc collided with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo in the waters of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The Mont-Blanc, laden with high explosives, caught fire and exploded, devastating the Richmond district of Halifax. 1,782 people were killed, largely in Halifax and Dartmouth, by the blast, debris, fires, or collapsed buildings, and an estimated 9,000 others were injured. The blast was the largest human-made explosion at the time, releasing the equivalent energy of roughly 2.9 kilotons of TNT. Nearly all structures within an 800-metre (half-mile) radius, including the community of Richmond, were obliterated. A pressure wave snapped trees, bent iron rails, demolished buildings, grounded vessels (including Imo, which was washed ashore by the ensuing tsunami), and scattered fragments of Mont-Blanc for kilometers. Across the harbor, in Dartmouth, there was also widespread damage. A tsunami created by the blast wiped out the community of the Mi'kmaq First Nation who had lived in the Tufts Cove area for generations. The explosive power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb was seven times that of the Halifax Explosion.
Yup, I am a life long Dartmouth resident. This one needed to make the list. It's strange that many folks don't know about it. Whenever school teach about WW1 The HFX Explosion should be mentioned as an interesting side note 📝
I live on thebGulf Coast in Biloxi, MS. While I was in Iraq when Deep Water Horizon first exploded, we got back 2 months later while it was still leaking. My unit was activated to help with the cleanup. The oil wasn't the worst part, the worst part was BP decided to use very toxic chemical dispersants. "Corexit made the oil 52 times more toxic than oil alone". BP poured over 2 million gallons of toxic dispersants into the Gulf of Mexico. I will never forget the disgusting smell of the dispersants, you couldn't get away of the smell, you could still smell it over 30miles away from the coast. The dispersants wiped out fish, crab, shrimp, birds and dolphins. The fishing and shrimping industry wss destroyed. Also devastating recreational fishing for years. Fishing was my favorite thing to do, when I was finally able to fish again every fish I caught had a horrible smell that was similar to the dispersants but different. Even now over 10yrs later if you dig just a foot into the sand you will smell the dispersants and your will find crude oil coated sand. BP constantly made wrong and horrible decisions that made the situation worse and worse. BP put profits over life and safety. The blowout, explosion killing 11 people could of been avoided if BP didn't rush the well. They were supposed to test the concrete after it was poured and cured but BP decided not to test the concrete because they were behind schedule and the testing would take 48hrs. The test would've shown the concrete was faulty. I would even say that it's still a very bad idea for any BP management to travel alone in some Gulf Coast states.
Check out the vast difference in funding that BP put into achieving deeper drilling as opposed to managing disasters, and that’ll shine a light on why they failed at resolving the issue in less than 3 months. The methods they had in place at the time hadn’t been improved in decades.
I am surprised Corium or the elephant's foot did not make the list. From what I understand, it has happened only a handful of times throughout the course of modern history. The stuff is totally nasty.
Preach! I'm just gonna sorta disagree on one point there: "disasters w/o causing disasters". Technically, we're still causing the disasters we're not causing. Take for instance decline in animal populations/habits, waning bee populations, oceans turning acidic and climate change in general, speedrunning through natural resources in a time period that's not long enough for the earth to reproduce it all due to over population. Also, side note, saw your channel subscriptions... great taste, by the way.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Union Carbide may be the single deadliest chemical disaster in human history. The only reason we don't know is because so many of the body's were buried before official tallying , some in mass Graves. The official count is extremely low compared to the amount of bodies that had to be buried, including undocumented people. What man-made disaster could you even be referring to that was worse than Union Carbide? The only reason you don't know about it is because the man who caused it was white and avoided prosection.
@@steven95N my grandfather was from bhopal where this incident happened…….We were super lucky that my grandpa left bhopal and shifted to delhi in 1983(1 year before this incident happened)
They cap Exploratory land wells the same with cement, Then they Move The rigs over capped Well Head drill through the Cement to (TD) Total Depth for either Gas or Oil or both. First they put on a BOP A Blowout Preventer a Specialized Valve anywhere from 2M to 15M in size used to seal control and monitor either Oil or Gas or Both, Wells to Prevent a Blowout from happening. Sometimes it happens though they call that a Rig Kick. Then like the Deepwater Horizon a Uncontrollable Well, Because They couldn't close in well head it as too late. If you haven't Seen the Movie, Watch it ( DEEPWATER HORIZON ) from 2016 with Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, & Kate Hudson it's a good movie. Based on actual Events of the Offshore Rig.
As a degreed Chemist and Biologist I am still dumbstruck by how we don't have more of these moments... I've wandered into a doorway that was propped open with a lead container... the Geiger counter measured the highest level recorded in the state...generations passed by that propped open door... we are silly fools ... we run the envelope edge and the jagged precipice so hard for money, for laziness, for ignorance... ... which in turn tells us something about ourselves... as stupid as we live we still seem to live. All empires collapse. But the earth rebounds... with us or without us.
No mention of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, or 9/11?? Two of the "5 Worst Man Made Disasters" had body counts of less than 12...Hell, one of them had a body count of only 6! WTF are the criteria used to compile this list?
The five worst disasters would actually be: Chernobyl, Fukushima, the flooding of the yellow river in WW2, the flint Michigan water crisis, and downwinders of nuclear tests in Navada.
Completely random question: Why highlight specific members in the thumbnail, vs. showing the group? Context: More and more of your thumbnails are showing only one member of the three -- which leaves me wondering if all three of you are involved and if I'm as interested in watching as I would be for the one or two people. There were times last year where members were ill or otherwise absent, so when I see a thumbnail with one person - I only expect one of you to appear - and I'm not quite as interested thinking there is less interaction in your reaction.
I can’t believe they left out the Halifax explosion of 1917. It was the largest man made explosion ever, prior to the 1st atomic bomb. It killed close to 2000 people, injured about 9000, hundreds were permanently blinded by flying glass. It flattened a large part of Halifax all caused by the collision of two ships in the harbour. One carrying tons of explosives.
Surprised the Halifax explosion wasn't on this considering it was the largest non atomic explosion in history that went off right off the pier of a city that had no idea of the danger.
The 1917 Halifax explosion needs to be on the list.
Surprised the Halifax Explosion of 1917 didn't make this list. It still remains the largest, non-nuclear, man made explosion to date.
I assumed Chernobyl would be on this list.
Fukushima is the tsunami caused disaster in Japan.
The Johnstown Flood in Pennsylvania was caused by one of the richest men in the world wanting to be able to take his carriage across a dam.
Was just going to the comments to point this out. Perhaps it wasn't included because the disaster was triggered by a weather event.
Who was that person??
Suicidal cats? I know that humans encounter unexplained phenomenon, but sometimes the way in which we attempt to fill in the blanks in embarrassing.
The 2020 film "Minamata," starring Johnny Depp as a real-life American photographer who traveled to Minamata, Japan to document the mercy poisoning of the population there, is must-watch viewing. Also, the London fog disaster is recounted is a gripping episode of "The Crown" on Netflix. Churchill really screwed up with his decision to step up the mining and use of coal AND by downplaying the poisonous fog for days before finally taking action. Sad.
@Miles Doyle And?
Fukushima power plant. Also I’m surprised Beirut wasn’t in there.
Yeah foreal.
1)Chernobyl
2)Fukashima
3)Beirut
I would have thought the giant fireball was a hint something went wrong
Chernobyl and the Texas City explosion were incredibly significant and should've made this list...even if they needed to expand to a "Top 10"; but THOSE should definitely make it into the top 5 I'd think.
nah, chernobyl only had like 4 deaths or something. source: KGB
@@everythingamazing2379 Lol...yeah...and I think the FSB said only three...and neither would lie, would they? :) But seriously, these disasters shouldn't necessarily be ranked by death toll...but by overall damage, scope and longevity of impact of devastation I'd think.
@TLL1969
I would've bet my left nut Chernobyl was number 1.... glad I didn't! 🤣🤣🤣
@@TLL1969 Are you forgetting that Chernobyl's STILL rather relevant even today when it comes to man-made disasters because of the Elephant's Foot in the basement? The very blob that's still emitting enough radiation to kill someone if they so much as spend less than two minutes at most near the damn thing and is emitting enough heat to still melt the floor below it even at a reduced rate, Chernobyl if it's not properly contained could very well kill our entire planet if that foot gets to the Earth's core.
@@cursedhawkins1305 ?? Of course not...how did you read into my comment anything even close to me diminishing the Chernobyl catastrophe? I'm well aware of it's impact then, now...and well into the future.
love that all the footage about a disaster in japan had non-japanese actors
Shocked the shrinking of the Aral Sea isn't included.
Chernobyl should have been number 1.
It was human error and negligence.
Chernobyl / Leaded Gasoline / the Halifax / Mao's Great Famine / the Dust Bowl / Fukushima / Castle Bravo... I wish they'd watch channels that put together thoughtful lists instead of constant garbage conveyor belt bullshit channels.
Bhopal gas tragedy was much worse than chernobyl
I'm surprised they didn't mention the great Halifax, Nova Scotia explosion of 1917.
From Wikipedia :
On the morning of 6 December 1917, the French cargo ship SS Mont-Blanc collided with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo in the waters of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The Mont-Blanc, laden with high explosives, caught fire and exploded, devastating the Richmond district of Halifax. 1,782 people were killed, largely in Halifax and Dartmouth, by the blast, debris, fires, or collapsed buildings, and an estimated 9,000 others were injured. The blast was the largest human-made explosion at the time, releasing the equivalent energy of roughly 2.9 kilotons of TNT.
Nearly all structures within an 800-metre (half-mile) radius, including the community of Richmond, were obliterated. A pressure wave snapped trees, bent iron rails, demolished buildings, grounded vessels (including Imo, which was washed ashore by the ensuing tsunami), and scattered fragments of Mont-Blanc for kilometers. Across the harbor, in Dartmouth, there was also widespread damage. A tsunami created by the blast wiped out the community of the Mi'kmaq First Nation who had lived in the Tufts Cove area for generations.
The explosive power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb was seven times that of the Halifax Explosion.
Yup, I am a life long Dartmouth resident. This one needed to make the list. It's strange that many folks don't know about it. Whenever school teach about WW1 The HFX Explosion should be mentioned as an interesting side note 📝
I live on thebGulf Coast in Biloxi, MS. While I was in Iraq when Deep Water Horizon first exploded, we got back 2 months later while it was still leaking.
My unit was activated to help with the cleanup. The oil wasn't the worst part, the worst part was BP decided to use very toxic chemical dispersants. "Corexit made the oil 52 times more toxic than oil alone". BP poured over 2 million gallons of toxic dispersants into the Gulf of Mexico.
I will never forget the disgusting smell of the dispersants, you couldn't get away of the smell, you could still smell it over 30miles away from the coast.
The dispersants wiped out fish, crab, shrimp, birds and dolphins. The fishing and shrimping industry wss destroyed. Also devastating recreational fishing for years. Fishing was my favorite thing to do, when I was finally able to fish again every fish I caught had a horrible smell that was similar to the dispersants but different.
Even now over 10yrs later if you dig just a foot into the sand you will smell the dispersants and your will find crude oil coated sand.
BP constantly made wrong and horrible decisions that made the situation worse and worse.
BP put profits over life and safety. The blowout, explosion killing 11 people
could of been avoided if BP didn't rush the well. They were supposed to test the concrete after it was poured and cured but BP decided not to test the concrete because they were behind schedule and the testing would take 48hrs. The test would've shown the concrete was faulty.
I would even say that it's still a very bad idea for any BP management to travel alone in some Gulf Coast states.
Check out the vast difference in funding that BP put into achieving deeper drilling as opposed to managing disasters, and that’ll shine a light on why they failed at resolving the issue in less than 3 months. The methods they had in place at the time hadn’t been improved in decades.
I am surprised Corium or the elephant's foot did not make the list. From what I understand, it has happened only a handful of times throughout the course of modern history. The stuff is totally nasty.
human ourselves are disasters without causing disasters. we are cancers
Preach! I'm just gonna sorta disagree on one point there: "disasters w/o causing disasters". Technically, we're still causing the disasters we're not causing. Take for instance decline in animal populations/habits, waning bee populations, oceans turning acidic and climate change in general, speedrunning through natural resources in a time period that's not long enough for the earth to reproduce it all due to over population.
Also, side note, saw your channel subscriptions... great taste, by the way.
No more than anything else in nature
These were no where near the 5 worst man made disasters.
Chernobyl and the Halifax Explosion needed to be on the list. Perhaps even number 1 and number 2
You have no idea what you are talking about. Union Carbide may be the single deadliest chemical disaster in human history. The only reason we don't know is because so many of the body's were buried before official tallying , some in mass Graves. The official count is extremely low compared to the amount of bodies that had to be buried, including undocumented people. What man-made disaster could you even be referring to that was worse than Union Carbide? The only reason you don't know about it is because the man who caused it was white and avoided prosection.
@@steven95N my grandfather was from bhopal where this incident happened…….We were super lucky that my grandpa left bhopal and shifted to delhi in 1983(1 year before this incident happened)
Chernobyl and the Beirut explosion could have easily made this list.
when you make a video of the 5 worst man made disaster, but leave out the actual worst one.
That being?
@@MySerpentineAug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945
@@Hol-mes I feel like 'disaster' implies an accident, but point.
#2 happened in 1984 and it says test results around the accident could not be published until 1984. That date must be in error.
oh, I like Dave with his glasses on :)
They cap Exploratory land wells the same with cement, Then they Move The rigs over capped Well Head drill through the Cement to (TD) Total Depth for either Gas or Oil or both. First they put on a BOP A Blowout Preventer a Specialized Valve anywhere from 2M to 15M in size used to seal control and monitor either Oil or Gas or Both, Wells to Prevent a Blowout from happening. Sometimes it happens though they call that a Rig Kick. Then like the Deepwater Horizon a Uncontrollable Well, Because They couldn't close in well head it as too late. If you haven't Seen the Movie, Watch it ( DEEPWATER HORIZON ) from 2016 with Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, & Kate Hudson it's a good movie. Based on actual Events of the Offshore Rig.
First one is just pure green i'm guessing.
1:21 Chernobyl wasn't out of our control. Chernobyl was cause by human incompetence
As a degreed Chemist and Biologist I am still dumbstruck by how we don't have more of these moments... I've wandered into a doorway that was propped open with a lead container... the Geiger counter measured the highest level recorded in the state...generations passed by that propped open door... we are silly fools ... we run the envelope edge and the jagged precipice so hard for money, for laziness, for ignorance... ... which in turn tells us something about ourselves... as stupid as we live we still seem to live. All empires collapse. But the earth rebounds... with us or without us.
Being from the United State’s I would wouldn’t have know about 1952 London Fog except for the face I watched it on episode of Call the Mmidwife
Are you having a stroke?
React to Dangerous Ways to go to School docu-series
1)Chernobyl
2)Fukashima
3)Beirut
Bhopal gas tragedy was much worse than chernobyl
They didnt do much research here lol.😂
Nuclear power plants?
That’s scary
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No mention of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, or 9/11?? Two of the "5 Worst Man Made Disasters" had body counts of less than 12...Hell, one of them had a body count of only 6! WTF are the criteria used to compile this list?
hiroshima nagasaki dresden and 9/11 were not accidents
@@BlackDeathThrash Title doesn't say accidental...
@@Nipponing the atomic bombings were intentional. Everything on this list was unintentional.
@@coffeelover907 It doesn't say that in the title.
@@coleknight3494 the video is "worst man made disasters". 9/11 and the bombings of japan would definitely qualify.
You guys should react/watch the movie Deepwater Horizon, it's based on the incident.
Without even watching I can already safety guess Chernobyl is number 1
you fellas needa be doin some reacting to Hi Ren; you're welcome
none of these and including the chernobyl nuclear plant compares to the Great Leap Forward policy of 1958 to 62, causing around 30m death.
The five worst disasters would actually be: Chernobyl, Fukushima, the flooding of the yellow river in WW2, the flint Michigan water crisis, and downwinders of nuclear tests in Navada.
Fukushima
Hi folks
Hello G String
USSR got off easy by not being on the list with Chernobyl.
And what they did to the Aral Sea.
*best
Nice
Chernobyl
Completely random question: Why highlight specific members in the thumbnail, vs. showing the group?
Context: More and more of your thumbnails are showing only one member of the three -- which leaves me wondering if all three of you are involved and if I'm as interested in watching as I would be for the one or two people. There were times last year where members were ill or otherwise absent, so when I see a thumbnail with one person - I only expect one of you to appear - and I'm not quite as interested thinking there is less interaction in your reaction.
I like the hat.
It covers that disturbing, soul less hair.
🙂
5,4,3,1 . . . . . no 2?
did you even watch the video?....2 was London smog....
@@Vendrix86 stop making fun of him. He seems a bit slow
@@gzx_3aaa537 lol
Why feature disasters with no video in a video? So dumb.
people like this narrator that have to over-enunciate every word drive me insane
First
Oh sorry, I realize that was for the office blokes
Hi India.... Love from American